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Very few rookies make an immediate impact. The Sox put a good number of rookies on display this year, but the only one who had 100 PA or 80 IP was Jarren Duran.
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September 17 Royals at Red Sox
notin replied to vegasbob's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Oh good. Not sarcastic at all… -
September 17 Royals at Red Sox
notin replied to vegasbob's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
And it took exactly 4 batters for folks to give up on German!! -
Probably true, but with only 18 games left, he won’t give us a much larger sample size…
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To me the biggest disappointment was Dalbec. I didn’t expect him to be the monster he was last August and September, but I certainly thought he should have improved somewhat over his slow start to 2021…
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JD had a subpar year, but this was looking obvious. X had one in some ways but excelled in others. Devers was having a great year until his injury. The biggest flaw this team had (and had last year) is they drifted away from getting players who get in base. They haven’t had a good leadoff hitter for 3 years now, and that’s the guy who gets the most PAs…
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JD Martinez has been declining for 3 years now. Even he knows this. If he thought he still had any pop, he’d have declined his player options to get a better or longer deal by now…
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Bloom makes at least one trade every year I just don’t expect. Benintendi in 2020. Renfroe after 2021. Houck just feels like this year’s guy. He’s a good relief pitcher, but he didn’t excel in any role this past year, and his vaccination status makes him a liability…
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If healthy, it’s a good team. With normal injuries, it’s a competitive team. But they really just had too many. At one point, Sale, Eovaldi, Wacha, Whitlock and Hill were all out. Losing 5 SPs derails any team…&
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Whitlock, Schreiber can be counted one. Taylor, too, if healthy. I think Houck gets traded…
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But at least only Story is signed long term. Not like anyone added a lot of deals hamstringing 2023…
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I do. Although I know there’s a good chance he doesn’t hit the ground running….
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He wasn’t. Barnes had 2 save chances in April and the first one was April 22. The early choice for closer appeared to be Diekman…
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So you’re saying what? He shouldn’t have been part of the bullpen? He got the second chance he deserved, but he didn’t do much at all with it. I’m not really sold on his brief turnaround for next year, but he’ll probably be back again…
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I would imagine Whitlock, Schreiber, Winckowski, Crawford, German, Kelly and Houck are all seeking roles, but not all footing is equal. Soxprospects.com lists all but German in the 2023 bullpen, but they also rarely include players from outside the organization..
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German gets the call! Finally!
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Not sure why you keep holding me accountable. He did deserve to be left off the postseason roster, but he also deserved to be an AL All Star just 3 months prior. And his bad stretch last year was also just 10 IP. Should the Sox DFA every pitcher who has a stretch of 10 bad IP?
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He could just be worn out. He’s at 139IP and his previous career high was 101IP…
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If Barnes came back from his bad 10 IP funk last year and pitched to his norms, you had Barnes, Houck, Whitlock, former closers Diekman and Robles, Strahm, Brasier, etc. The problem is when most teams loot their bullpen for a SP, they take a guy from the backend, usually a long reliever/swing man. The Sox kept taking the late inning guys…
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I didn’t make excuses; I suggested possibilities. And it was absolutely possible he had struggled due to being in a new league. He would not be the first player to do so. Not sure why you hate Duran as an example of poor outfield D, other than it gives a very tiny reason to like something about the JBJ trade. (OMG it shows the trade might have been on to a little something!!). Whether or not Duran was the worst is immaterial; he’s the epitome of poor outfield defense, and the Sox felt they could upgrade there. The outfield offense was not part of the point, and isn’t the only job of outfielders. In a post about how they tried to improve D, you keep bringing up offense. I think they were OK with somewhat of an downgrade offensively, but clearly not to what JBJ regressed to…
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To me, neither are starters and hopefully neither ever do it again…
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I didn’t even mind the JBJ trade. Sure he didn’t hit, but the Sox got him too shore up outfield defense, which he did. And when the Sox had Verdugo-Kike-JBJ in the outfield, they defended it well. Once Duran took over CF, you should have seen that outfield defense is just not a given and can be very important and difficult. It’s actually weird that people bash the improvements the JBJ trade did make, but then also think Verdugo isn’t good enough for RF…
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They had a good pen on paper to start the season. They also probably didn’t give up on Houck completely like many fans, too. But the guy was an All Star closer in 2021. The biggest issue was the depth. They kept raiding what could have been a decent pen to backfill injuries in the rotation. This just lead to more injuries and missed starts…
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They’ll fit right in with Schreiber, Whitlock, and Houck…
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Fact of the Game: When Salvatore Perez singled to drive home the Royals’ lone run in the sixth, it was the first earned run Wacha had given up after the fifth inning this year…
